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Midrash Rabbah - Lamentations Prologue XXV R. Jonathan said: Three and a half years3 the Shechinah abode upon the Mount of Olives hoping that Israel would repent, but they did not; while a Bath Kol issued announcing, ’Return, O backsliding children (Jer. III, 14), Return unto Me, and I will return ...

Thanks. I agree that what matters is what I think. For all my personal experiences, none can be proven except that each has moved me further from a suicidal drug abuser to a better Christian. That they happened can be doubted by others, but the evidence in my life that they have moved me to God is u...

The church I attend was having a worship and prayer night last night, and I was doing my usual of sitting in the back. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the service, I'm just one who enjoys it from a private spot of contemplation and prayer rather than overt, front row visibility. Personally, I've been in...

I've always understood idolatry to relate to what you worship. Worship coming from the words worthy-ship, or to accord something a "position of worth." In superstitious culture, this position could be accorded to a figure clearly recognized as an idol in the Old Testament understanding. In a scienti...

In Paul's list here it appears that he acknowledges some governments or people in government might not be owed all things in his list. Paul does not say that governing authorities are all owed taxation, revenue/custom, respect/fear, and honor. Just like you pay taxes to some and custom to others, so...

You hit on an argument that I am finding as I study theosis. Col 1:15 and 2Co 4:4 use the same Greek (εἰκών) to say Christ is the image of God as the Septuagint uses to say man is created in God's image in Gen 1:26, 27. Many who support theosis have no problem with applying the referenced uses of im...

Saw this just now as I am wrapping up a long night of schoolwork.

I pray that you both be comforted, her pain will decrease, and that the doctors will be able to discover a clear diagnosis.

Blessing to you both!

Edit: What kind of testing have they done so far? MRI yet?

I'm not a fan of this trend to redefine a lot of standard doctrines as having been introduced through "philosophy." My main purpose with the thread was to get an idea for how people picture the union of God and man. Its interesting how, of the few ideas presented here, most would find themselves ou...

For me Christ has to be a legitimate human being from stem to stern as they say, for legal reasons. Many see it this way. But it seems based upon philosophical reason founded in other understandings related to interpreting the atonement in a certain fashion. Going back through church history, I've ...

Its interesting, I would take your verses Paidion and say they support backwoodsman because they suggest Christ came "looking like" man. It leaves room open to consider that while God came looking like man in flesh, meaning he had the biology of man, he was not like man in the aspects that can not b...